Join us to celebrate Alison Turner's new poetry book The Second Split Between, winner of the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. Alison will read poems from the book and answer questions about her writing process from the audience.  Alison will be in conversation with poet Dorianne Laux who was the judge for the poetry prize.

Alison Turner lives with her husband under the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, California. She received a JD from the UCLA School of Law and, during the years of a busy appellate practice, reserved the hours of 5-7am for reading and writing poems. Her poems have been published in Nimrod, Mid-American Review, Hudson Review, San Pedro River Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Catamaran, and other journals and anthologies. She is author of the chapbook, What To Do In An Emergency.  This will be her first full collection.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, W.W. Norton. She is also author of The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award. She teaches poetry at North Carolina State and Pacific University. In 2020, Laux was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Alison Turner in conversation with Dorianne Laux: Poetry book launch event